On 16-Jun-00 at 18:01, Jon Fo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Rick,
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> If you have Internet access, you can get a lot of stuff
> precompiled from http://www.freeware4sun.com. It's not
> the fastest site, but it has most everything you need,
> at least to get going. Also check out
Right, which is where, I think, I got the pre-compiled gcc. Still, the number
of circular dependancies is at the very least a little bit shocking. Why should
I even bother to download 6, or more, binary packages when I can simply slap in
a RedHat cd. Just what are Sun, and supposedly other comercial vendors,
smoking???? What can they possibly hope to achieve, besides the demise of their
product, by not shipping some basic tools????
>
> http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/packages/solaris/sparc/
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jon
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >
> > Has anyone tried to bring a stock Solaris machine up to something usefull
> > for development???? I've spent most of today attempting this, and I'm
> > pretty close to the point of saying "screw it", I'll install RedHat. First
> > off, Sun seems happy to ship with a cc that runs, however the only thing
> > is does is print a message saying, if you really want a compiler, pay us
> > some more. How stupid is that!!!!!! I figure "screw you" I'll just
> > download a binary of gcc. So you try to compile gcc for the specifics of
> > the hardware you have, but it bombs because it needs ar. Fine, so you get
> > the binutils, which proceed to bomb because you don't have lex. So you get
> > flex, which bombs because you don't have yacc. So you get bison, which
> > bombs because you don't have flex.....but your building bison so you can
> > get flex, which won't build without bison.....How the hell does anyone
> > manage to bootstrap new hardware with this system. In order to build
> > anything, everything else must be installed. make seems to be the only
thing that recognizes the fact that you may be building make, because you don't
> > already have make. Right now I'm stuck in a loop becuase bison needs
> > flex, and flex needs bison, I have neither??????
> >
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